Tag: global flows

• The Sordid, Sudsy Rise of Soap in China

  August 23, 2020

  The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust soap back in the limelight: Of all the hypothesized solutions to viral transmission — from big data-powered contact tracing to disinfectant injections — few are… more ›

• Black lives will not matter until the economy does

  August 6, 2020

  In the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police officers in the United States and the global movement for Black lives, there has been a resounding call to re-examine the… more ›

• Hajj 2020: A Hajj Like No Other for the Select Few Invited by Allah

  August 2, 2020

  Hajj 2020, small, scaled back and limited numbers, all diametrically opposite the descriptions and scenes we’ve witnessed year upon year. It’s very much a unique moment in history for Muslims… more ›

• Why Protest Tactics Spread Like Memes

  August 1, 2020

  When items like umbrellas and leaf blowers are subverted into objects of resistance, they become very shareable. A video frame captured in Hong Kong in August 2019 shows a group… more ›

• India, Jio, and the Four Internets

  July 26, 2020

  One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok is that this will potentially lead to the splintering of the Internet; this completely erases the history of China’s… more ›

• The World’s Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in Xinjiang

  July 21, 2020

  Two recent disturbing events may finally awaken the world to the scale and horror of the atrocities being committed against the Uighurs, a mostly secular Muslim ethnic minority, in Xinjiang,… more ›

• China’s Plans to Win Control of the Global Order

  July 15, 2020

  The Chinese Communist Party leadership believe they are in the midst of an ‘intense, ideological struggle’ for survival and that to win they must defeat the West. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-plans-global-order more ›

• Xi Jinping in Translation: China’s Guiding Ideology

  July 15, 2020

  What ideology guides the star of rising Chinese power? General Secretary Xi Jinping’s answer to this question is unequivocal: “Socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism, not any other ‘ism.’” Xi… more ›

• The TikTok War

  July 15, 2020

  Over the last week, as the idea of banning TikTok in the U.S. has shifted from a fringe idea to a seeming inevitability (thanks in no small part to India’s… more ›

• UK government and UN commit to protect seafarers and help stabilise global shipping market

  July 9, 2020

  Marking the International Day of the Seafarer, the UK government has today (25 June 2020) announced it will host the first international summit on the impact of COVID-19 on crew… more ›